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Ongoing Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probe into the flour crisis has forced a sharp decline in the prices of wheat and flour country-wide.

A crackdown was carried out by authorities against those selling wheat flour which was deemed injurious to health and was being sold as subsidised flour.

As flour-crisis intensify in the Sindh province amid claims from the chief minister to overcome it by Wednesday, unidentified men on Thursday looted a government godown filled with wheat bags in tehsil Nasirabad.

Miss Bukhari in a talk show had complained that she was unable to find flour despite search in Lahore.

Flour from the Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) godowns has started arriving in the city, aimed at overcoming the shortage created in the market.

Leader of the opposition in the national assembly, Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif slammed the surge in prices of wheat flour across Pakistan.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken note of the surge in flour prices across Pakistan, sources privy to the development claimed on Friday.

Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shallwani on Tuesday announced wholesale and retail prices of flour in the city.

Sindh government on Saturday decided to crackdown against flour hoarders, creating an artificial shortage of the major food supplement in the city and selling it at higher prices.

Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi on Friday warned of a flour crisis in Karachi due to mismanagement of the provincial authorities from next week.

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has once again rolled up sleeves against flour mills in order to ensure the implementing on fortification program...